KEEPING THE HISTORY: DAN JURGENS ON THE HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE
03-28-2006 12:06 AM
by D. Carleton Hartman

HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE (Trade Paperback) (20 Feb 2002)

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NRAMA: Now as far as the project itself goes, will be a straight time-line approach like the original two volume ‘History of the DC Universe’ that [Marv] Wolfman and [George] Perez did right after Crisis on Infinite Earths? Will it be more character driven than that project, and if so, which character, or characters will be featured?
Dan Jurgens: If you look at that original history of the DCU, that was not a comic book per-say, it wasn’t presented as, ‘here are the panels and here are the word balloons.’ It was a wonderful project that was very much driven by text, with visual annotations, and was wonderfully comprehensive. If you look at the word count and the page count they had, we can’t even begin to touch on that.

What we’re going to do is try to give everyone a feel for what the DC Universe was, the changes that its gone through and maybe hint at where a couple of things are going as see through the eyes of Donna Troy. She’s a character who is out there now that has connections to so many realities if you will, that have occurred throughout the DCU. It’s through her eyes that we can show everybody this is the DCU before the crisis ever occurred. This is kind of happened in and around the Crisis and this how Zero Hour affected it. Because so many readers are new to the whole thing, we can kind of take them [and older readers at the same time] through what it the DC universe was, and hopefully will be in the context of these 10 stories.